THE LIFE WORTH LIVING HENRY DAVID 

 THOREAU. 



TT has often been urged that such a scheme as 

 mine would be all very well for a man with 

 even a small income, say sufficient to insure him 

 and his family against starvation at any time, 

 and to give him the few luxuries which with 

 most people of refinement have become almost 

 necessary. For instance, even an income of 

 five hundred dollars a year might warrant a 

 person of very simple tastes in making such an 

 experiment as I have outlined ; such a sum 

 would, at least, provide oatmeal and milk, bread 

 and coffee. It would be largely a return to 

 first principles in household economy, but there 

 are people who would not grumble could they 

 exchange a life of intellectual plenty even at 

 this cost of superfluities. So modest a sum 

 as five hundred dollars a year, if used with skill, 

 might provide a glimpse of such dissipation as 

 an occasional theatre, or a strain of music in 

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